Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Judaism focuses on the small questions of everyday existence

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JPost.com » Opinion » Op-Ed Contributors » Nov 5, 2007 20:09 Updated Nov 6, 2007 The Jewish gift to Humanity By SHMULEY BOTEACH A few...
Friday, November 02, 2007

A divine vocation that brings with it, not enlightenment, but darkness, confusion, oppression

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The Gospel according to Martin Scorsese from Faith and Theology by Ben Myers A guest-post by Scott Stephens In his infamous lecture, “ Why...
Friday, October 26, 2007

The meanings law, order and truth mingle in a single Sanskrit word: rita

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Front Page > Opinion > THE NEED FOR VEDIC WORDS - A modern word may express a thought formulated long ago ROBERTO CALASSO The Tel...
Thursday, October 25, 2007

Dawkins is a decent popularizer of science but compared to Kepler, Newton, and Einstein he is a Lilliputian

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Q&A with Dinesh D’Souza (Part I) By Dr. Paul Kengor Thursday, October 25, 2007 Send an email to Dr. Paul Kengor Editor's Note: Ac...
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007

The poison isn't religion; it's monotheism

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Bring back the Greek gods Mere mortals had a better life when more than one ruler presided from on high. By Mary Lefkowitz October 23, 2007...
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007

To be an Athenian is to hold the quest for knowledge in high esteem

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The Athenians and the Visigoths : A Graduation Speech -- by Neil Postman Members of the faculty, parents, guests, and graduates, have no fe...
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Saturday, October 06, 2007

Rorty has a laudatory essay on Kundera's fiction

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POSTMODERN ETHICS: RICHARD RORTY & MICHAEL POLANYI by John Rothfork , from here It is perennially fashionable to claim that Americans h...
Thursday, October 04, 2007

''The good old Great Books approach'' is the ''only serious solution'' to the crisis in education

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THE GROVES OF IGNORANCE By ROGER KIMBALL ; NYT: April 5, 1987 THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy an...

We must cultivate consciously the art of saying nothing, but saying it beautifully

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Michael Dillon is the apex, the ne plus ultra of contemporary philosophical discourse. Why? It is not because of the subject matter of his w...
Friday, September 28, 2007

One can make room for the slaughter of a child within the ethical

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Fear and Trembling Some more notes from Kierkegaard . posted by Peter J. Leithart 1. In the Problemata sections of Fear and Trembling , Ki...
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Thursday, September 27, 2007

El may have been a god in the Canaanite pantheon, while YHWH may have been a Midianite god imported, via nomads

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HOW TO READ THE BIBLE A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now. By James L. Kugel. 819 pp. Free Press. $35. Related First Chapter: ‘How to Read th...
Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Upcoming book on "Christology and Science"

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Christology and Science Pairing these modes of inquiry -- Christology and Science -- may seem odd to many readers, but I am increasingly con...
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